Rapid Prototyping Services & Rapid Manufacturing
As the top automotive lighting prototype supplier in China, KUSLA provides high-quality prototypes including lighting optic prototypes and lit mockups which are very close to molding parts in mass production.
Automotive lighting lamp is one of the most important parts of car styling, this means high-quality automotive lighting prototypes are required for the styling designer to validate the styling of the complete car in the early stage before heavy investment. it is a complex engineering product combined with mechanical, optic, and electronics. So, high precision and transparency are required during the automotive lighting prototype manufacturing process for good optic performance.
KUSLA has ever made hundreds of Automotive lighting prototypes in the past for complete lighting lamps (lit mockups) including Headlights, Taillights, Turn Signal Lights, and Interior Lights. we also produce many components of lighting lamps including outer lenses, bezels, light guides, light blades, reflectors, housing, brackets, and many more. Following our customer NDA requirement, here we show some of the prototypes we made a long time ago which means the products are already on sale in the market.
Lighting components | Functions | Prototype Material | Machining process | Precision | Surface finishing | Lead time |
Outer lens prototype | Assemble with Housing to seal the lamp | PMMA and ABS | CNC machining | 0.1 | Mirror polish on PMMA and Pait black on ABS, then Glue together | 7days |
Bezel Prototype | As decoration parts and hide inside components | PC | CNC machining or 3D Printing | 0.1 | Painting black and Gloss UV | 6days |
Reflector Prototype | To reflector lights from the light source | PC or Aluminum | CNC machining | 0.05 | Metalization | 8 days |
light guide prototype | To guide lights in the needed direction | PMMA or PC | CNC machining | 0.05 | Mirror polishing | 7days |
Housing prototype | Assemble with outer lens to seal the lamp | ABS | CNC machining or 3D Printing | 0.2 | Painting black | 5 days |
Carbody prototype | To simulate vehicle styling | ABS | CNC machining or 3D Printing | 0.2 | Custom color painting and gloss UV painting | 7days |
Our Engineers can make prototype design work for you to make sure the prototypes are easy to assemble and disassemble.
Our diligent workers can make the automotive lighting prototypes less in 10 days to help you achieve the tight project timing plan.
We have been manufacturing automotive lighting prototype for over a decade with high quality standard for over 100 projects.
We could offer customed optic material which is exactly same as your design to achieve the best optic performance
we could provide lower cost than competitor by constant cost down actions in our plant and manage with our partners.
With our in-house advanced machines, Kusla provides high-quality automotive prototypes by CNC machining and 3D printing, for more volume over 10 pieces, we can provide urethane casting and rapid injection molding service to make the prototypes fast.
Complete your prototype in as fast as 72 hours. superior precision and cost-effective.
We can utilize superior materials to accomplish the Urethane Casting Prototyping, ensuring completion within 5 days for quantities less than 100.
Complete your prototype in as fast as 24 hours. FDM, SLS, SLA, PolyJet, MJF technologies.
We provide both insert molding and overmolding techniques, with production Materals In short time, less than 4 weeks
KUSLA have a large customer base with over 100 customers include both top global tier-1 Automotive lighting company such as valeo, Hella, Marelli and also China domestic top lighting company such as Hasco, XingYu.
Most frequent questions and answers
we can make minimum R0.05 radius for the optic prototype such as light guides and reflectors.
Yes, We can light guide with optic polycarbonate materials by our custom material block process
we can make max 1400mm long lightguide with one piece machining
Not like the other supplier make the bi-color outer lens with painting, KUSLA make one piece for one color part, then glue them into one piece. this is the best for reflecting the molding parts.
We can make both for polycarbonate and acrylic material. Detail Polycarbonate grade as LUX12114, PC2405,PC2245,PC 2407 550115，Makrolon LED 2245 551592/000000
PMMA grade: PMMA 8N, PMMA 8N 33681,PMMA 8N 33691,PMMA 8N DF23 milky red ,PMMA 8N Satinice DF23 Red 3V161, PMMA LD96，LD48，LD24，LD12
0.3mmX0.3mm is the minimum we can achieve with R0.05 milling tool.
We use a spray texture paint method, controlling the amount of paint and ensuring uniformity in speed. It will look consistent with the grain sample. The optical effect is approximately 80% similar with a tooling part according to our experience.
Yes, we have a partner laboratory that can conduct optical photometry test of car lights.
We can make colorful transparent prototype by Spray painting and dyeing or custom colorful material blocks for CNC machining.
Choosing the right Rapid Prototyping service partner is key to accelerate your business's path to market success, and now you are about to get it.
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Technical Sales
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